by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n
Jihad Watch<\/em><\/p>\n Historically, non-Muslims whose lands were seized by the jihad had three choices: conversion, dhimmitude, or death. Today, however, they have a fourth option largely unavailable to their forbears: quit their lands of origin \u2014 emigrate \u2014 the latest testimony to the nature of Islam.<\/p>\n A\u00a0recent report<\/a>\u00a0indicates that unprecedented numbers of Copts, Egypt\u2019s indigenous Christian population, are emigrating from their homeland in response to the so-called \u201cArab spring\u201d:<\/p>\n The Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations (EUHRO) published a report today on emigration of Christians from Egypt, saying that nearly 100,000 Christians have emigrated since March 2011. The report, which was sent to the Egyptian cabinet and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), warned that this emigration has been prompted by the escalating intimidation and attacks on Christians by Islamists. \u201cCopts are not emigrating abroad voluntarily,\u201d said Naguib Gabriell, the director EUHRO, \u201cthey are coerced into that by threats and intimidation by hard line Salafists, and the lack of protection they are getting from the Egyptian regime.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The report goes on to list a number of attacks on Copts and churches \u2014 including the killing of Coptic youth in Moqattam, the Imbaba and other church attacks \u2014 adding \u201cSalafist clerics, who gained political influence after the January 25 Revolution, have become emboldened, calling Copts\u00a0dhimmis<\/em>who have to pay the\u00a0jizya<\/em>\u00a0(tax paid by non-Muslims to the state) because they are not first class citizens and can never enjoy full citizenship rights, or obtain sensitive posts.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, this boldness is a harbinger of things to come \u2014 and Copts know it, hence the emigration.\u00a0Wagdi Ghoneim<\/a>, a popular cleric and former imam in California, recently called Copts \u201cCrusaders\u201d on Al Jazeera \u2014 about the worst thing to call someone in the Muslim world \u2014 insisting that they do not deserve equal rights with Muslims in Egypt, because they are infidel\u00a0dhimmis<\/em>. Likewise,\u00a0Abu Shadi<\/a>, a top representative of the Salafis, told Tahrir News that the Copts must either convert to Islam, pay\u00a0jizya<\/em>\u00a0and assume inferior status, or die. These are just a couple of examples of the countless Muslim leaders openly hostile to Egypt\u2019s native population.<\/p>\n Nor is this phenomenon limited to the Copts of Egypt:<\/p>\n Gabriel sees a parallel with the Christian emigration from Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. \u201cAfter the massacre of the congregation of Our Lady of Deliverance Church on October 31, 2010, and other attacks in Iraq, the ratio of Iraqi Christians went down from 8% to 2%; in Palestine to just .5%, and in Lebanon from 75% to 32%. If emigration of Christians, who constitute nearly 16% of the Egyptian population, continues at the present rate, it may reach 250,000 by the end of 2011, and within ten years a third of the Coptic population of Egypt would be gone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bear in mind these large numbers are not simply indicative of those who\u00a0want<\/em>to emigrate, but those who simply\u00a0can<\/em>: not only does it take years to work out the legalities of emigrating, but many simply cannot afford it. In other words, if emigration was a simple thing, the number of Christian emigrants from the Muslim world would be even higher.<\/p>\n As professor Habib Malik confirms, \u201cIt is principally the violence visited sporadically upon these Christian communities in their native towns and villages across the Middle East, and the absence of any reliable means of protection in a region seething with religious fanaticism and despotic forms of rule, which impels Christians to flee and not return\u201d (Islamism and the Future of the Christians of the Middle East<\/em>, pgs. 36-37).<\/p>\n But it\u2019s more than this; in fact, we are witnessing another manifestation of history \u2014 witnessing firsthand how formerly non-Muslim lands become Muslim. For just as conversion to Islam (out of force, out of necessity, out of cynicism) and the outright killing of non-Muslims saw the ranks of Islam grow, so too does emigration fit in this same paradigm of Islamization.<\/p>\n Beyond the authoritative primary sources which unequivocally demonstrate the violent nature of Islam \u2014 including history and theology texts \u2014 which many prefer to dismiss as \u201cdead books,\u201d here, then, is yet another live example. And yet the West\u2019s leaders, from academics to politicians, will continue insisting that Islam is the \u201creligion of peace\u201d \u2014 testimony to the endemic blindness inflicting this age.<\/p>\n \u00a92011 Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Historically, non-Muslims whose lands were seized by the jihad had three choices: conversion, dhimmitude, or death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225,227],"tags":[192,1035,1017,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-w3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/collective-punishment-wherever-you-can-reach-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":1987,"position":0},"title":"Collective Punishment: “Wherever You Can Reach Them”","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York During a recent altercation in Egypt, a Christian inadvertently killed a Muslim. 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